Qifu.

The guests who participated in the banquet were satisfied, and they were full of wine and food and asked to leave.

The eldest lady of the Qi family felt a little unwell, and immediately instructed the housekeeper to beckon the eldest maid Sheng'er to come over and wait. She felt clumsy and unaccustomed to other maids.

In addition, the eldest lady has just put down her beloved son in her arms, although the weather is cold, but the hot air left by the guests in the house just now, as well as the rising stove, and the steaming nutritious soup bowl......

Looking at the slightly wet hair on her forehead, an uninteresting maid kindly took a goose feather fan and fanned her like this.

"Give it to me, I don't know if a woman in confinement can't blow the wind like this?" the eldest lady stared at her angrily.

The maid was so frightened that the goose feather fan in her hand shook, and then fell to the ground.

"Big lady, Sheng'er is here, I've kept you waiting, she just had something to delay and went to the west courtyard. ”

The butler didn't smile, and with Sheng'er, he came in with his front foot, and his back foot wanted to send away the uninteresting fan girl.

"Let her stay, learn from Sheng'er, and do something. The eldest lady squinted at the maid with a flustered expression.

Sheng'er immediately stepped forward, took half a pot of hot water from near the stove, poured it into the washbasin, and poured cold water prepared in advance by the nearby kettle, and threw a hand towel in the washbasin tepidly, and then stepped forward, slowly held it with her right hand, and gently wiped the sweat on her forehead for the eldest lady, while wiping it, she gently brushed her hair to the side.

The eldest lady sighed softly comfortably, turned her eyes to look at the maid in the corner, and said angrily: "See, have you learned?"

"Yes, yes. The maid said in fear.

She looked jealously at Sheng'er, who was serving the eldest lady. There was resentment in his eyes.

The eldest lady was not bad to them before, but since the girl Sheng'er came, their life has become worse and worse...... Although she was young, she became the eldest maid, ruling over all the maids in their yard.

In addition to the eldest wife and aunt in the family, she is the biggest job. Except for the housekeeper, who could also yell at her, the other servants were trembling at her. She and a few maids secretly said a lot of bad things about her, but they couldn't find any handle on her, this woman is simply very perfect, Wen Tao Wu, and will serve people, if it was in ancient times, it may be a general's talent. Although the maids were not convinced, their hearts were also convinced.

The eldest lady then sent away the housekeeper and the maid, leaving Sheng'er alone, and she saw that the housekeeper took the maid, closed the wooden door of the room, and listened to them drift away, and then ordered Sheng'er to sit down on the small bench beside her quickly.

"You went to the west courtyard, it's the house of the sixth aunt's wife, where are you going, what are you going to do?"

Sheng'er hesitated, because she didn't want to say anything about the assassins for the time being, because the evidence was insufficient. I am afraid that after saying it, I will be angry with the eldest wife, and it will affect the baby who feeds her. But not saying it seemed to hide it from her, and it was not good, so she frowned and came up with a statement.

"Just now Sheng'er went to the sixth aunt, and she passed by quietly, and it was convenient to go to see her, after all, I haven't seen her these days, we have a banquet here, gongs and drums, firecrackers, her side is deserted, just now I saw the old man passing by, and I glanced at her house and sighed. I took pity on her and went to take a brief look. After all, I'm the maid in your room. You are also a big lady, you have kindness to her. ”

Sheng'er was not apprehensive when she said this, because she had seen all the big and small scenes, and such a perfunctory statement could actually be fooled in front of the eldest lady.

Sure enough, the eldest lady praised her for being sensible, and gave her a worthless bracelet in her hand, and then she had more important things to whisper to her.

"Today I am anxious to ask the housekeeper to beckon you to come over quickly, but in fact I want you to go to the riverside ferry and help me hand over this thing to a person, and you hold the portrait, this person's face is very distinctive, and no one will be similar to him. ”

Sheng'er hurriedly unfolded this small picture scroll, took a cursory look at this person's appearance, and then said goodbye to the eldest lady, folded the picture scroll into her sleeve, wrapped her cloak, and pushed the door out.

The eldest lady is more at ease with Sheng'er, thinking that she is her confidant.

This person corresponds to the note information provided to her by the Lan family's team, exactly the same, who is this person?

Sheng'er, full of suspicion.

The sky is occasionally dark.

On the riverside, passing merchant ships are moored at the riverside wharf in twos and threes.

If you cross the river at this hour, I am afraid that you will encounter rain and snow occasionally.

Shaotian Daisa (Japanese army) was wandering nearby, and he came out without telling the commander of the army, and today he planned to buy his old mother some food for the common people of the Republic of China.

His mother is Republican, non-Japanese, and fluent in Japanese. He had been deceiving the army and had bought his mother a small house nearby. He himself speaks fluent Chinese.

He secretly went to the house once a week to visit his old mother. Because his mother suddenly wanted to eat tofu skewers today. Today, he disguised himself even more, disguised as a Han Chinese and blended into the crowd's ferry procession.

His exact appearance, identical to the portrait provided by the eldest lady, appeared impressively under the brim of his hat.

He has something to do with the eldest wife, because the antique business, his military reputation in the army, is very limited, so he is engaged in such a business in his spare time, and even he has a team of tomb robbers, hiding from the army.

......

Above the side road.

After eating, Young Master Jiang Cheng led this lazy horse that was neither old nor crippled, and thought of the riverside ferry to change a diligent horse, even if he added a little money, in case he needed it on the road.

He was determined to choose a horse with fast feet, strong, endurance, and not gluttonous. That's what he really needs.

coincided with the road surface, the ice and snow road was slippery, and some of the people who seemed to be elderly wanted to slip and fall, so Jiang Cheng led the horses while supporting these people.

As he gradually stepped into the riverside ferry, he suddenly found a familiar back.

The familiar cloak, the familiar and delicate braids hanging down between the hair.

Sheng'er.

This woman is not waiting in the courtyard of the Qi family, what is she doing at this riverside ferry?

But what about the words? He pretended to be an old man that day, but today he is what he is.

Looking at Sheng'er looking around in a panic, it seemed that she was waiting for someone, or looking for something.

Her eyes were so clear......

Young Master Jiang Cheng slowly led the horse nearby, and looked at her side.

Her silhouette is so beautiful.